1. Why do I use … so much?
2. Meant to say, the best thing about work of course, is that the team I’m part of is excellent, definately the best bunch of folk I’ve worked with, and there’s some stiff competition from my ex-British Steel workmates.
Monthly Archives: December 2001
Christmas
So, there you are, wondering what to buy me for Christmas, and wow, you’ve just won the lottery so you have loads of spare cash, how handy.
16 days …
until Lord of the Rings. Wwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Knackered!
I’m knackered! Spent the day ripping PC’s apart, rebuilding them, moving bits around, for a friend of Grete’s. I don’t mind doing it at all, but it’s bloody warm work.
Since Grete got her new machine, we’ve reduced the number powered up overall by one. Her old machine (lothlorien) became the mail/news/web server here. Her new machine (shire) is obviously hers. We decommissioned hoth, which was the old mail/news box. And we’ve also turned off r2d2 which was providing the printer and data shares. Lothlorien (debian) is now providing those, which is nice (and it’s finally working with the tape backup, which wouldn’t work on the previous debian build).
I found a whole bunch of old receipts today, for computer stuff I’ve bought over the years, including one for a double speed CD ROM, £99. One for a 1GB hard disk, £169. A sound-blaster clone (Thunderboard), £79. A dot-matrix printer, £270. 4MB of memory, £76. Weird.
Grete …
Grete’s not well, got some kind of cold thing again, and she always really suffers when she catches anything like that.
Sleep!
Of course, now I can’t sleep!
I’m on call, which always leaves me on edge, had some kip earlier because then I was tired, and I’m always on a bit of a high after developing code and new websites. So, I’ve been lying there for half an hour with things buzzing through my head. Not worth trying. I’ll sit here until I get sleep again, and then go to bed.